Fence



(No Model.)

J. R. WHELEN.-

FENCE.

Patented Aug. 19, 1884.

TTORNEYS PATENT OFFICEQ JAMES R. \VHELEN, OF ROWVE, MISSOURI.

FENCE.

PEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,772, dated August19, 1884. Application filed February 4, 1884. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may-concern;

Be it known that I, Janus R. WnnLnN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Rowe, in the county of Audrain and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and inwhich- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of my improved fence,and Fig. 2 is a front View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures.

My invention has relation to combined wire and plank fences, and itconsists in the improved construction and combination of parts of thesame, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A indicate the posts, to whichthree (or more or less) wires, B, preferably barbed wires, are secured,one above the other. Two (or more or less) vertical wires, G, aresecured by twisting at their ends to these wires, extending from thewire above to the wire below, and form at their centers loops D, intowhich the ends of the horizontal planks E- are inserted, the ends of theplanks from onepanel extending into thenext panel,where they areinserted into the loops of the nearest wires, together with the ends ofthe next set of planks, which do not extend the full length of thepanel, but are inserted into the loops of the next set of verticalwires, together with the ends of another set of horizontal planks, whichextend into the next panel in the same manner as the iirst-mentionedplanks, thus bringing nearly two lengths of planks into one panel. Iprefer to form one row of loops upon the vertical wires projecting toone side and the next row projecting to the other side of the fence, andto insert the ends of the planks correspondingly; and it will be seenthat I by this construction of a fence save posts, there being onlyone-half of the number of posts necessary, as also the fence will hemore yielding, thus beingless liable to inj ure stock running againstit, and perform the same function as a simplebarbed-wirefence-viz.,prevent the stockfrom breaking against it-and atthe same time avoid a drawback in the plain wire fence-via, thepossibility of the stock running against it and injuring themselves bynot seeing thethin stretched wires.

It will also be seen that the fence may be put up with very few andsimple tools, it being only necessary to plant the posts and to securethe horizontal wires and the vertical wires upon them, when the planksmay be inserted into the loops of the vertical wires without anynails orother means for securing them.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States In a combined wire and plank fence,the combination of the upright posts, the horizontal wire strands woundat intervals around said posts, the vertical wires secured at both endsto two of the horizontal wires, two sets of wires between each pair ofposts,and formed with loops at their iniddles between each pair ofhorizontal wires, and the horizontal planks inserted with their meetingends into the loops of the vertical wires between the horizontal wires,as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AMES R. lVI-IELEN.

Witnesses:

WM. 13. Cross, H. B. Bose.

